Digital Library Project and Service Manager

Digital Library Project and Service Manager

Salary: IT Business Analyst 2: $125,557 - $154,213. IT Business Analyst 3: $156,505 - $183,920.

Created: January 21, 2026

The Libraries values are rooted in a commitment of mutual respect, the idea that every member of the staff has something to contribute, and that learning is constant. We seek a team member who is ready to share their skills and perspectives. This position is dual posted at level 2 and 3.

This position is suited to candidates who thrive on supporting others to achieve their goals, who embrace curiosity and exploration with technology, and enjoy working in a dynamic and highly collaborative environment. An ideal candidate will bring experience with digital librarianship, familiarity with research practice, understanding of the open source ethos and the software development lifecycle, knowledge of the digital library discovery landscape, and capacity for hands‑on technical analysis and management of digital content.

About Stanford Libraries:

Stanford Libraries has a network of over 15 libraries with over 400 employees. We are committed to fueling the teaching, learning and research across Stanford by acquiring, stewarding, and making available a robust collection, currently in excess of 12 million items. Everyone in the organization plays a vital role in fulfilling that objective. Our dedication to discoverability and information management also has us engaged in dynamic global partnerships.

We are constantly building and strengthening our organization, and we recognize striving for excellence is a marathon and not a sprint.

About the Position:

The Digital Library Product and Service Manager (DLPSM) will report to the Associate Director for Digital Library Services in the Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) division of the Libraries. The division is based on the historic campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. The position is eligible for remote work.

The DLPSM will join a high performing team – including digital library service managers, product owners, systems analysts, data scientists, and project managers – in DLSS, the department within Stanford University Libraries (SUL) responsible for the development, promotion, delivery, and continual improvement of digital library services for the Stanford community and the research community more broadly. The role’s primary responsibility is to manage and advance two established programs at Stanford University Libraries:
Spotlight Exhibits and Virtual Tribunals.

The DLPSM will serve as the product and service manager for Spotlight Exhibits, SUL’s online platform for showcasing digital library collections. They will work closely with software development teams at SUL and in the Spotlight open source community to routinely maintain and enhance its features and capabilities over time as digital content, user needs and online technologies evolve. They will directly support SUL collection managers, library curators and their partners in their adoption and ongoing use of Spotlight to promote discovery and use of Stanford’s extensive collections.

They will lead a service team to promote collaborative, participatory service development with library colleagues.

The DLPSM will also serve as the product and service manager for Virtual Tribunals (VT), a collaboration between SUL and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice to compile a comprehensive, searchable digital archive database of international criminal law and tribunal records, from post‑World War II war crimes trials through to contemporary courts. Alongside content contributors, subject matter experts, data scientists, engineers and archivists, the DLPSM manages and executes discrete digital collections projects, scoping timelines and resource requirements, engaging with digitization and metadata vendors, developing project plans, specifying and reviewing work packages, tracking progress and communicating outcomes.

Beyond these two primary focus areas, they will contribute to organizational portfolio analysis, continually helping to surface, assess, understand, and communicate the business…